Re: Please help ntldr is missing

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akumageorges wrote:
Michael;4666572 Wrote:

I experienced this with my XP machine after every format. What I found
was
the BIOS was trying to boot to something other than a CD or hard drive.
I
think it was trying to boot to a USB port (can't remember-was a long
time
ago). Try to get into your BIOS and check the boot order and select
your CD
drive first, then your active hard drive.

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"Don't pick a fight with an old man.
If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."

When i set the HDD as first to boot from,i get the "bootmgr missing"
message,
When i set to boot from DVD first, after the windows loading files
window,it goes straight into the "winload.exe missing" error screen

I don't really understand this whole thing but my computer acts as if i
have some other hard drive(cause i shouldn't be getting the winload
error message in an empty HDD,right?)
I'm wondering,is there a way to reset the BIOS(i'm too sure exactly
what this is) in such way that it doesn't pop up old error messages(you
know a way to erase its internal memory) i got when i actually had
something in the HDD?
Thanks




You said you formatted in a different (but Vista) machine, is it possible your DVD player has a fault or that it simply "Doesn't like" your DVD - this happens sometimes.

Could you maybe copy the DVD using the other machine and then try the copy in this affected machine. I've had 2 DVD players act up this way recently... ended up replacing both.

You can get DVD cleaners from most video stores but that didn't work for me.
.

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